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Everyone, do not reply to this.
Because I know that Bill G. has a psuedo name here and I have not figured it out yet otherwise I would sent this direct.
This is a personal poke at him, that they ingnored the subject until figuring out that Linux was a member and would have to conform to the initial SPEC that we had input on and they did not!
The next punch will be to deliver adapter support before them! Also any other things that are turning quietly in the land of ATA.
Cheers All,
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